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CV page 07

PROJECTS page 11oslo food lab page 13

superstructure page 23 luxury hotel page 29 megalopolis page 37 legato page 45

constructing 1:1 page 51

INTERNSHIPS page 54

DRAWING page 57

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Name: Vilde Aspen HelvikAdress: Arups gate 16, 0192 Oslo, NorwayE- mail: vildeaspen@gmail.comPhone: +47 900 10 907Date of birth: April 28th, 1987

education

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE2006 - 2012 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway2009/2010 Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL) Lisboa, Portugal

PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL2003 - 2006 Skeisvang videregående skole Haugesund, Norway

work experience

ARCHITECTURE / CONSTRUCTION02.01.11 - 20.09.11 Intern at Dark Architects Oslo, Norway31.08.10 - 23.12.10 Intern at MAPT, Copenhagen, Denmark24.06.08 - 30.07.08 Summer intern at NCC Construction, Oslo Airport Gardermoen, Norway15.06.07 - 15.08.07 Summer intern at NCC Construction, Oslo Airport Gardermoen, Norway

OTHER2004 - 2012 Assistent at Haugesund Museum of Fine Arts Haugesund, Norway2007 - 2011 Volunteer dance instructor at the university’s sportsclub (NTNUI), Trondheim, Norway

languages

Norwegian Mother tongueEnglish Fluently written and spokenPortuguese Well written and spokenSpanish Basic written, well spokenFrench Basic written and spoken

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additional information

_ Exchanged for one year in Lisbon to expand my arcitectural horizon_ Did a 4 weeks excursion in January 2009 to study the architect Kengo Kuma in Tokyo, Japan_ Educated dance instructor through NSI, The Norwegian Society of Student Sports_ Jazz ballet instructor in NTNUI Dance Club where I also participated in arranging dance shows every term, and was responsible for the graphic material of the dance studio (volunteering)_ Driver’s license class B_ Experienced with lasercutting (also maintenance procedures)

personal interests and hobbies

_ Dance: ballett, contemporary, jazz, hip hop, tap dance_ Sports: surfing, snowboard, handball, running, yoga_ Music: have played the accordion from the age of 8_ Travelling and learning languages_ Art, design and drawing

seminars/workshops

_ Building regulations and contracts (Kontraktsjuss), May 2012, Trondhem, Norway_ Urban Farming (Bønder i By’n), March 2012, Trondheim, Norway_ New Schools (Ny Tids Skole), October 2011, Nord- Trøndelag, Norway

computer skills

_ Rhinoceros version4.0/5.0_ Adobe Creative Suite CS5 (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)_ ArchiCAD_ Revit_ AutoCAD_ Artlantis Studio_ Vray_ Google SketchUp_ Microsoft Office

references:

Anders Lendager +45 61 28 00 11MAPT (now Lendager Arkitekter)Christine Grape +47 23 13 12 00Dark ArchitectsGrethe Lunde Øvrebø +47 52 74 41 80Haugesund Museum of Fine ArtsSven Erik Granlund +47 91 53 67 54NCC Construction AS

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OSLO FOOD LAB

CULINARY INSTITUTE AND RESTAURANT (2012)

Oslo, NORWAY

Tutors: Steffen Wellinger and Pasi Aalto

the assignment

The task was to design a culinary academy that works as a restaurant by night, stressing a fusion between the academic (the school and the

students), the professional (the restaurant and the chefs) and the public (the visitors).

The assignment developed from a wish to work with “flux”. The word flux is used to describe the constant changing in our society today. Flux is

globalization and people travelling across the world. Flux is digitalization and the increased float of information. And, in the case of OFL, it is

the flux of people and functions in a complex situation where the professional and academic meets the public mass of both tourists and

inhabitants of the city that want to be part of a new food culture.

the concept

The concept of Oslo Food Lab is a big greenhouse covering all the needs of the visitors, the workers, as well as the cultivation of food.

Service functions are placed in boxes that are placed wherever needed within the big greenhouse. The aim of the building is to

appear as being one big room where all the activity can be seen. The landscape around the building is naturally sloping making the building

like an amphi theatre stepping down towards an activity plaza. The stairs climbing the 13m hight difference become an important aspect

in the building as they are used for both seating, eating space and auditorium.

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3rd floor : informal / lounge

ground floor : grand dining 1st floor : experimental 1st floor : experimental

roof : cultivation

waste / compost

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vice / delivery

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unge terrace

bar

café

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dministration

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sroom / event

cultivation

winecellar

picnic area

kitchen

wc

storage

auditorium

laboratory c

lassroom / event

bike parking

cultivation

storage

kitchen

shower

cultivation

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library

culti

vation / green house

garden

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water collector

viewpoint

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cross section

longitudinal section

south elevation

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plan 3rd floor

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SUPERSTRUCTURE

WORK REHABILITATION CENTRE AT STAVNE GÅRD (2009)

Trondheim, NORWAY

Group assignment with Mari Takle Stensaker and Annette Irene Berntsen

Professors: Steffen Wellinger Atelier Oslo (guests) Ingrid Helsing Almaas (critics)

the assignmentThe task was to design a new centre for the business Stavne Gård. This business

helps people with challenges such as earlier drug abuse or a difficult upbringing, to get into (or back into) a routine, with keeping a job as the main goal. Stavne

Gård has different departments teaching different things to the “users”: a sew department, a workshop, a mechanical workshop, a café etc. The task was

to gather all these different needs into what can be seen as one building or a unity of buildings. The goal is to make the users feel a part of something bigger,

and to make them feel that they are mastering something. The products they produce are sold or exhibited in a shop integrated in the project. The business is

currently placed on an old farm close to the city centre. The site is surrounded by the river and is placed on top of a big hill. Today the centre is in an old farm

house with land surrounding it. The new building(s) can be moved to other parts of the site, but ought to adress to the old buildings. The assignment was a contribution to the current discussion on rehabilitating or renewing the centre.

the conceptThe concept of our project was cohesion. We wanted to make the centre as

one giant structure “walking” around on the site, also exploiting the extravagant view over the city. We called the major wooden structure “The Superstructure”.

The Superstructure serves all needs of closed rooms, open rooms, outdoor rooms covered by roof, and vertical and horizontal transportation. The structure is built

around an “industrial floor” where all parking and transportation of materials take place. With this structure you get an overview of the building and the

surrounding area. This gives the comfort of orientation, but also participation in what people are doing. The structure is a “flying” truss construction supported

in the vertical connections. In the verticals the construction moves down to the ground; making the building more unified. The rooms inside of the structure have

a corridor in front working as a buffer zone to lower the energy consumption. The rooms in the Superstructure and on the industrial floor are placed in order

to have visual contact. We worked on creating different places with a varying degree of exposure: places to hide, places to meet and places to show off.

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visual contact between the levels

blue shows the buffer zone while yellow shows the heated rooms

south elevation

plan level 1 plan level 3

site plan

the axis through the structure and the rooms connecting to it

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north elevation

detail

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LUXURY HOTEL

LUXURY HOTEL NEXT TO THE RIVER TEJO (2010)

Lisbon, PORTUGAL

Professors: Fransisco & Manuel Aires Mateus

João Gomes Da Silva (landscape) João Santa Rita (installations)

the assignmentThe task was to design a luxury hotel in a chosen lot along Lisbon’s coastline. The hotel

is supposed to be in contact with the river Tejo which is the greatest asset of this area of Lisbon. It’s also supposed to vitalize the surroundings today chacterized by industry and traffic. The hotel program contains 30 suites in addition to service areas needed

for a hotel.

the concept A temporary stay in a borrowed space is what a hotel offers you. Should a luxury

hotel offer something different for the short stay away from home? Then, what else could it offer? Closeness to the places you want to visit is the first thing that comes

to mind. All along the coast Lisbon possesses a tremendous view over the river Tejo. In an area that today is barely touched by aesthetical forces, and rather shaped by practical needs, the aesthetics of the nature strongly shines through. Basically

the view is the most valuable asset in the area. An aim for the design process was for all the visitors of the luxury hotel to enjoy a part of this view. Therefore the slab

was lifted up to give the rooms a superior view over the river. The slab was shaped according to its surroundings. The rooms were placed with angels according to

each other to give every room a direct contact with the river view. Furthermore the rooms were given four glass walls to maximize the experience of the surroundings.

The concept of the luxury hotel is in this way the big elevated slab that gives you the possibility of enjoying the view from both inside the room or from any point of the common areas surrounding it. As the upstairs floor is a huge and strong shape the

ground floor was established as more fragmented. The different service needs were placed into boxes. The space between the boxes then works as a glimpse towards the river when you are situated on the “urban floor”. The term “urban floor” is used to explain how the footprint of the building with its extended floor takes part in the

surrounding environment. As the floor reaches out to the different sides of the building, non-residents are invited into the ground floor of the building. Some of the service

functions such as the restaurant, bar and the gymnasium can be open to the public.The expression of the roof is similar to the one of the 1st floor slab, except for the holes

cut out of it. Some of the boxes will take advantage of these holes in the roof giving them sunlight even though they’re placed under the dark slab.

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site plan

the site

ground floor 1st floor

the room: a glass box enclosing a massiv core containing bathroom and storage space

door detail

door detail

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transversal and longitudinal section

north elevation

south elevation

west elevation

east elevation

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MEGALOPOLIS

NYTC _ NEW YORK THEATRE CITY (2010)

Manhattan, New York, USA

Open student competition at ArchMeduim (ETSAB) designed together with Annette Irene Berntsen

the assignment

To task was to design an urban theatre campus where smaller companies can dispose of rehearsal spaces and stages. The new performers can show themselves to the world in a new and different way. At the same time, the campus is intended to turn itself into an incubator for new tendencies and talent, a place where theatres all over the world can go to, to obtain fresh

ideas, and, why not, offer that sought job contract that can skyrocket a play to stardom. This time, however, that play will not be a well known company,

but the younger ones who fight for a place in the tough world of showbusiness, and who may want to look for their place out of New York, in countries where

theatre hasn’t yet become a main entertainment feature, and where the people are anxious to see more dancers, musicians and actors doing their

magic on stage. For New York City, the campus must become a public space, where the citizens can go to and take a walk in an artistic environment out of

the crowded Broadway area. They can also go in to one of the multiple rooms the complex has to offer, to be astonished with a new piece of fantasy placed

on stage, for a couple of hours.

the concept Megalopolis is designed as a city within the city of New York. To exploit the huge site given for the purpose the different stages of the theatre city are spread out, thus creating a one-level project that vitalizes all corners of the site. A roof level

at +3.00 meters is established to make the access into Megalopolis easy from all points of the site. Extruding through the +3.00m level roof are the different

stages; relieving the orientation throughout the theatre city. The vast area outside and underneath the roof is where entering, mingling, exhibitions and spontaneous performing take place. Entering the project from the elevated

High Line Park happens through the glass elevator at the main entrance. The +3.00m level roof connects all of the stages placed along the northern and

eastern part of the site, leaving the southern stages as pavilions in the park area. This creates a dynamic and vibrating theatre city where the areas surrounding

the buildings are given their own characteristics. As the users of the theatre city often are smaller and unestablished theatre groups, a focus has been

put on the flow through the project. Paths lead you through the project and the park area surrounding it. The visitors are given varied visual and, at times,

unexpected impressions. The different outdoors stages are given an importance as their characteristics relates to the inhabitants of Megalopolis. The project is planned as a green, breathing, theatrical nucleon in a city usually associated

with traffic, skyscrapers and Broadway shows. The performer is in the spotlight in Megalopolis, a place where anyone can have their “15 minutes of fame”.

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The Clown Happyland

The Performance Group

The Square

Our method in this conceptual competition was to create inhabitants of the theatre city that would affect the way we designed the project. These inhabitants were described as a variation of stereotypes that frequents the theatre city. Their characters define the urban areas of Megalopolis. Varied outdoor areas cover the different needs of the individuals and groups performing there. Megalopolis is about seing and being seen.

MEGALOPOLISTHE INHABITANTS

The WorkerThe Exhibitionist The Podium

The Visitor The Meetingpoint/The Viewpoint

The Poet The Forest

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The Backyard The Miniature The Garden

Section B - B42

Site plan

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LEGATO

KAM_FACULTY OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND MUSIC AT NTNU (2011)

Trondheim, NORWAY

Group assignment with Ida Johanne Andersen Ve

Professors: Jürgen Johner

Gavin Henderson (guest critics)

the assignmentThe task was to design a new (or several new) faculty building(s) for the Art,

Architecture and Music faculties (KAM) at NTNU in Trondheim. The task was part of the Master Course “Complex Building Programs”, and was also supposed to be a study for NTNU and the city council’s actual wish to build a new campus

for Art, Architecture and Music. This campus, with its placement next to the well known student house, would then be the new “face” of NTNU towards the city

centre.

the concept Our project is concentrated in a line stretching from the NTNU campus on the

hill down towards the city where the student house “Studentersamfundet” encloses our structure. The project is in this way reaching towards the city, and

underlining the intention of making KAM a link between the public and the academic (and creative). Our strategy is to keep as much as possible of the

listed buildings on the site, and integrate them into our project. The line creates a connection between the different parts of KAM enabeling the students to be

in contact with each other. The spaces expand and contract along the way and the bigger exspansions establish inner campus courtyards where informal

meetings and cultural events can take place. KAM will appear as different sequences of spaces expressing the different characteristics within the faculties.

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The volumes were excavated so that they measured about 15 meters. This gives good conditions for daylight in the building. The courtyards take in light and heat up the termic mass. The termic mass regulates the heating of the building by storing heat.

The roof was made into a shape consisting of triangles that support eachother within their locked frame. The triangled roof helps the volume to become less monotone and created the myriad that we were looking for. The roof also solves the adaptation to surrounding buildings.

1_ Starting point: THE LINEAR STRUCTUREA structure that moves along the park. The park is a dominating landscape element in the situation.

2_ Slicing up: THE INNER COURTYARDto create a connection within the campus where the students can show what they do and see what the other students are doing.

3_ Developing: PARTING THE VOLUME to correspond with the surrounding buldings and break the monotony of the long volume.

SITE PLAN: A defined outer facade and a varying inner space contracting and expanding into courtyards. At certain points the southern part of the volume is split up to relate to the park.

volume

excavation

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volume

excavation

cutting

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Section C-Clongitudinal section

South facade

West Facade

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CONSTRUCTING 1:1 - SPACE IN DIALOUGE

PAVILLION OF WOOD AND TRANSLUCENT TEXTILE (2006)

NTNU campus, Trondheim, NORWAY

Group assingment with Einar Bye, Annette Berntsen and Kirsti Bjerke Øye.

Professors: Fredrik Lund Gro Rødne Fredrik Shetelig (critics)

the assignmentThe assignment was called “space in dialouge” as it was a common assignment

for the class to design together. We were parted into groups of 4 where each group was handed a site along a path designed by the professors. Each group

within the same frame had to design a pavillion. In this way the path became a journey of different spatial experiences.

the conceptAs we were one of the pavillions at the very end/beginning of the path we wanted to construct it as an entering portal. We were allowed only to use wood, nails and a white transparent textile (normally used as cover when

cultivating). We wanted our pavillion to give a glimpse in to the other pavillions and the path. We therefore used a lot of the transparent textile. The wooden frame consisted of stairs leading up to a viewpoint and a room underneath, with a ladder connecting the two levels. Along the stairs the wall functioned

as louvers, where some were covered by the textile and some not. From some angles the viewline into the path is undistracted, and from other angles the transparent textile sifts the view. The viewpoint on the top of the stairs were

made to have an overview of the path. Using the transparent textile also made a special effect when being lid up. At the vernissage all pavillions were lid up by

small candles.

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MAPT Mediating Architecture, Process and TechnologyCopenhagen, DENMARK

“The Tilted House” - Concept sketch and visualization of our proposal in the open competition of upgrading Falkonergården High School

Herlev Shopping Centre - Concept sketch and visualization of the new shopping mall entrance

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DARK ARCHITECTSOslo, NORWAY

“In The Loop” - winning project in the competition about developing Asker city centre. Dark Architects + ACT + ADEPT

“Oslo Cancer Cluster “ - Model 1:200 (lasercutted)

“In The Loop” model 1:1000 (lasercutted)

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3 dimensional bamboo and plastic dragon, NTNU.